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Image diffusion has recently shown remarkable performance in image synthesis and implicitly as an image prior. Such a prior has been used with conditioning to solve the inpainting problem, but only supporting binary user-based conditioning.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Majed El Helou

While current research predominantly focuses on image-based colorization, the domain of video-based colorization remains relatively unexplored. Most existing video colorization techniques operate on a frame-by-frame basis, often overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Rory Ward , Dan Bigioi , Shubhajit Basak , John G. Breslin , Peter Corcoran

This paper proposes a novel approach to generate multiple color palettes that reflect the semantics of input text and then colorize a given grayscale image according to the generated color palette. In contrast to existing approaches, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Hyojin Bahng , Seungjoo Yoo , Wonwoong Cho , David K. Park , Ziming Wu , Xiaojuan Ma , Jaegul Choo

Exemplar-based image colorization aims to colorize a grayscale image using a reference color image, ensuring that reference colors are applied to corresponding input regions based on their semantic similarity. To achieve accurate semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Satoshi Kosugi

Text-to-image generation has recently seen remarkable success, granting users with the ability to create high-quality images through the use of text. However, contemporary methods face challenges in capturing the precise semantics conveyed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Shay Shomer-Chai , Wenxuan Peng , Bharath Hariharan , Hadar Averbuch-Elor

Computing the gradient of an image is a common step in computer vision pipelines. The image gradient quantifies the magnitude and direction of edges in an image and is used in creating features for downstream machine learning tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Shouvik Mani

Recent years have witnessed the success of large text-to-image diffusion models and their remarkable potential to generate high-quality images. The further pursuit of enhancing the editability of images has sparked significant interest in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Yifu Chen , Jingwen Chen , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Zhineng Chen , Tao Mei

Structure-guided image completion aims to inpaint a local region of an image according to an input guidance map from users. While such a task enables many practical applications for interactive editing, existing methods often struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Haitian Zheng , Zhe Lin , Jingwan Lu , Scott Cohen , Eli Shechtman , Connelly Barnes , Jianming Zhang , Qing Liu , Yuqian Zhou , Sohrab Amirghodsi , Jiebo Luo

Colorization of grayscale images has been a hot topic in computer vision. Previous research mainly focuses on producing a colored image to match the original one. However, since many colors share the same gray value, an input grayscale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Yun Cao , Zhiming Zhou , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Realistic image restoration is a crucial task in computer vision, and diffusion-based models for image restoration have garnered significant attention due to their ability to produce realistic results. Restoration can be seen as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Yuhong Zhang , Hengsheng Zhang , Zhengxue Cheng , Rong Xie , Li Song , Wenjun Zhang

Human beings can imagine the colours of a grayscale image with no particular effort thanks to their ability of semantic feature extraction. Can an autonomous system achieve that? Can it hallucinate plausible and vibrant colours? This is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Rita Pucci , Christian Micheloni , Gian Luca Foresti , Niki Martinel

Recently, the application of deep learning in image colorization has received widespread attention. The maturation of diffusion models has further advanced the development of image colorization models. However, current mainstream image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yanru An , Ling Gui , Chunlei Cai , Tianxiao Ye , JIangchao Yao , Guangtao Zhai , Qiang Hu , Xiaoyun Zhang

Image colorization is a challenging problem due to multi-modal uncertainty and high ill-posedness. Directly training a deep neural network usually leads to incorrect semantic colors and low color richness. While transformer-based methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Xiaoyang Kang , Tao Yang , Wenqi Ouyang , Peiran Ren , Lingzhi Li , Xuansong Xie

We introduce a novel approach that takes a single semantic mask as input to synthesize multi-view consistent color images of natural scenes, trained with a collection of single images from the Internet. Prior works on 3D-aware image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shangzan Zhang , Sida Peng , Tianrun Chen , Linzhan Mou , Haotong Lin , Kaicheng Yu , Yiyi Liao , Xiaowei Zhou

Image colorization is the process of colorizing grayscale images or recoloring an already-color image. This image manipulation can be used for grayscale satellite, medical and historical images making them more expressive. With the help of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Ahmed Samir Ragab , Shereen Aly Taie , Howida Youssry Abdelnaby

Recent work has shown great progress in integrating spatial conditioning to control large, pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models. Despite these advances, existing methods describe the spatial image content using hand-crafted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jiayi Wang , Kevin Alexander Laube , Yumeng Li , Jan Hendrik Metzen , Shin-I Cheng , Julio Borges , Anna Khoreva

The text-to-image synthesis by diffusion models has recently shown remarkable performance in generating high-quality images. Although performs well for simple texts, the models may get confused when faced with complex texts that contain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Chang Yu , Junran Peng , Xiangyu Zhu , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Qi Tian , Zhen Lei

Text-conditioned diffusion models can generate impressive images, but fall short when it comes to fine-grained control. Unlike direct-editing tools like Photoshop, text conditioned models require the artist to perform "prompt engineering,"…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Michelle Shu , Charles Herrmann , Richard Strong Bowen , Forrester Cole , Ramin Zabih

We tackle a new problem of semantic view synthesis -- generating free-viewpoint rendering of a synthesized scene using a semantic label map as input. We build upon recent advances in semantic image synthesis and view synthesis for handling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Hsin-Ping Huang , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee , Jia-Bin Huang

Image inpainting is the task of reconstructing missing or damaged parts of an image in a way that seamlessly blends with the surrounding content. With the advent of advanced generative models, especially diffusion models and generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xingzhong Hou , Jie Wu , Boxiao Liu , Yi Zhang , Guanglu Song , Yunpeng Liu , Yu Liu , Haihang You